From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improved node descriptions Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:43:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20110222234304.GA21731@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20110217213017.25708.95042.stgit@homer> <20110219192458.GB4506@obsidianresearch.com> <4C2744E8AD2982428C5BFE523DF8CDCB4A20B28B17@MNEXMB1.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Mike Heinz , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:13:47PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Mike Heinz wrote: > > The biggest problem with that is that patching existing boot scripts > > is always going to vary from distro to distro and is always going to > > have problems when dealing with files that were already edited for > > site-specific reasons. > > This is the wrong way to look at it. Really it would make sense in > the long term to add required support to native distros -- piling hack > on hack in OFED is clearly a long-term disaster. So I don't think > saying "it's hard to make a single RPM" is a very good argument. Indeed, considering that OFEDs entire purpose is to manage packaging IB stuff for distributions this doesn't seem like a good argument.. Nor do I think OFED should even try to have one RPM for all distros, good packaging isn't like that. > In this case I do think it makes sense to add this support to the > kernel, since the kernel handling is so simple. In fact based on > Jack's question it might make sense to go further and have more > flexible expansion... what if we do something like adding primitive > format expansion, ie Doing it in userspace makes generating the node description changed trap simpler? What about other drivers? I didn't see ehca in Mike's patch.. I just wonder if this is a big pain to do right, what about charsets, IDN, and ugly details like that? Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html